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VOCABULARY ''FUN''!!

British Received Pronunciation (BRP) (pg. 152)

- The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and new considered standard in the United Kingdom."A pronunciation of British English, originally based on the speech of the upper class of southeastern England and characteristic of the English spoken at the public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Until recently it was the standard form of English used in British broadcasting."-thefreedictionary.com

Creole or creolized language (pg. 162)

– A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Dialect (pg. 152)

– A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation."A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: Cockney is a dialect of English."- thefreedictionary.com

Ebonics (pg. 176)

– Dialect spoken by some African-Americans."Any of the nonstandard varieties of English spoken by African Americans."- thefreedictionary.com

Extinct Language (pg. 171)

– A language that was once used by people in daily activities, but is no longer used.

Franglais (pg. 177)

– A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French Language, a combination of, François and anglais, the French words for “French” and “English”, respectively.

Isogloss (pg. 155)

– A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate."A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs."-freedictionary.com

Isolated language (pg. 175)

– A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.Examples include Parts of Africa and Iceland.

Language (pg. 149)

– A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.

Language Branch (pg. 156)

– A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the samefamilies.Some examples of language branches include Celtic branch, Germanic branch, Latin branch, Slavic branch, Baltic branch, Iranian branch, andIndic branch. *Note- these are only a few examples of language branches.

Language family (pg.156)

– A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Language group (pg. 157)

– A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.

Lingua franca (pg. 176)

– A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.

Literary Tradition (pg. 149)

– A language that is written as well as spoken.Most languages today have literary tradition.

Official language (pg. 149)

– The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.*There are approximately 18 official languages in India.

Pidgin Language (pg. 176)

– A form of speech that adopts asimplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.

Spanglish (pg.179)

– Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.

Standard language (pg.152)

– The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.

Vulgar latin (pg. 161)

– A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.

Below is a lovely little forest of language trees for you to look at. :D